On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 01:19:14PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 03:16, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Not a plugin for it, but mplayer will play them. It's non-free and > > only in unofficial packages. > > > > Actually, mplayer proper is free (GPL'd). Some of the codecs that you
This seems to be under debate as well, since the mplayer folks seem to be ignoring a few minor-ish points of the GPL with regards to some code they're using. See the enormous flamewar that filled d-d for a week about a month back. > may choose to use, however, are non-free. And there is actually an > mplayer plugin available that works pretty well. > > http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net > > It's currently up to 0.40. It even plays Quicktime movie trailers and > the such right in the browser window. I'm working on making it my first > Debian package actually. :) Ooooh, neat. Have you put the packages up somewhere? > > Then you'll want to get the mplayer-<arch> package appropriate to your > > CPU, w32codecs (which also includes the DivX ;-) codecs among others) > > and if you also want quicktime support, qt6codecs. When you get the > > prompt of how you want to handle the movie, open it in gmplayer. Your > > movie will play in a seperate window. > > > > I, for one, still recommend compiling from source. You just download a > source tarball (or, for more fun, get the CVS version :), add in any > codecs you might want, and run "debian/rules binary" from the base I think you'd still need to do that as 'fakeroot debian/rules binary', though... > Unstable is only for those of us who like to fix broken systems for fun. Amen! :) > :) However, if you want to be closer to the cutting edge without > actually cutting yourself, just run testing. Testing hardly ever > actually "breaks" and it tends to be much more recent than stable. > Stable, IMO, is only for servers. It's entirely too old to be used as a > desktop system. Testing is in many respects worse shape than unstable at the moment; it has quite a few known security holes, which haven't been fixed and won't be until libc is fixed in sid...The problems in sid are generally not something I'd want to burden a newbie with though, so I guess testing is still the best choice for a more-modern-stable. -- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ertius.org/
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